Now Web entrepreneurs are out to change the way you fill your gas tank.
It was one reason he had risked becoming a Web entrepreneur.
Some said he saw the money some Web entrepreneurs were making, and wanted his chance to make a mint.
Still sitting pretty, say Web entrepreneurs who have survived - and even some who haven't.
Figuring out how to acquire and post the menus is a key challenge to would-be Web entrepreneurs.
Web sellers can buy software and services that the first generation of Web entrepreneurs were forced to build themselves.
Two years ago, when the Internet bubble burst, it was the Web entrepreneurs who sought out his services.
Now Web entrepreneurs rub shoulders with tech-stock brokers in the unemployment lines.
About six months ago, however, an invasion of young Web entrepreneurs began in earnest in the industry, restaurateurs say.
But the multimillion-dollar sale, to an ambitious Web entrepreneur in Canada, changed all that.